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SUMMARY
The Tatavla district is located on the European coast of Constantinople (Istanbul). The first settlements date back to the middle of the 16th century during the reign of the Sultan Süleyman I the Magnificent (1520-1566), when the location there of Orthodox former captives of the Ottoman fleet is documented. During the 19th and the early 20th century, it was a numerous community, the inhabitants of which belonged to the middle strata of the Greek-Orthodox Istanbul society. Since the 1960s, however, the local community followed the decline of the rest Constantinopolitan Orthodox communities. |
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